Re: (PM) Livingston multi-homed? (fwd)

Brian Elfert (brian@citilink.com)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 10:24:32 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, MegaZone wrote:

> Once upon a time Brian Elfert shaped the electrons to say...
> >When is Livingston going to multi-home their Internet connection?
>
> We *are* now. Dual-T1 BGP feed. Did it a while ago.
>
> >I got a whopping .26k/sec on a download today.
>
> Yep, isn't the net wonderful?
>
> >this going to happen soon? I did a traceroute to ftp.livingston.com, and
> >Netcom is dropping quite a few packets.
>
> Netcom? That is like our backup feed, it isn't one of the two primaries.
> Odd that you even use it.
>
> If I traceroute to you I don't pass through Netcom at all, I hit
> Sprintlink.

Strange, we go through Sprintlink to Mae-East where we jump on Netcom.
Sprintlink is our main provider at 45Mbps, so I'd think Sprintlink would
be preferred both ways.

Brian

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